Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Qualitative data analysis:
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software: http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
List of programmes for organising textual data: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/
research/software/index-old.html.old
Freeware for textual analysis: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/answr.htm
Codes of practice:
For sociological researchers: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/
For conservationists wishing to publish in Oryx: http://assets.cambridge.org/ORX/orx_ifc.pdf
The Association of Social Anthropologists: http://theasa.org/ethics/ethics_guidelines.htm
American Anthropological Association: http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethics.htm
Questionnaire surveys:
Recommended links from de Vaus's textbook www.social-research.org.
A databank of questionnaire surveys: http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk
Statistical databases:
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations: http://www.fao.org/waicent/
portal/statistics_en.asp
World Conservation Monitoring Centre: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
International Financial Statistics Yearbook: http://ifs.apdi.net/imf/about.asp
United Nations Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/
CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Excellent compendium of data sources: http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/stats.htm
Another good compendium of links: http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/
Other:
Handy currency converter: http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Social Sciences Information Gateway: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
Cybertracker website: http://www.cybertracker.co.za/
Royal Geographical Society Expedition Handbook: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/
Publications/EAC
Handbook.htm
Society for Conservation Biology Social Science Working Group Catalogue: http://www.con-
bio.org/workinggroups/sswg/catalog/
publications/Expedition
Handbook/Expedition
3.4.2 Textbooks
Bateman, I., Carson, R.T., Day, B., Hanemann, M., Hanley, N., Hett, T., et al . (2002). Economic
Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Very useful
manual for designing economic valuation studies.
Bernard, H.R. (2002). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods ,
Third Edition. Altamira Press. A useful broad-based textbook.
Crawley, M.J. (2005). Statistics: an Introduction Using R . John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
Crawley, M.J. (2007) The R Book. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. The standard textbook
for ecologists wishing to do generalised linear modelling. Many of the same principles apply
when you use GLMs in social research. It makes use of R, a popular freeware statistical
modelling package.
Hanley, N., Shogren, J., and White, B. (2001). Introduction to Environmental Economics . Oxford
University Press, UK. A good and widely-used textbook that covers the theory of environ-
mental economics, including valuation of non-market goods.
 
 
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